The Associated PressPhoenix Mercury's DeWanna Bonner, Temeka Johnson, Diana Taurasi and Penny Taylor, from left, huddle after a call in favor of the Seattle Storm during the first half of Game 1 of a first-round WNBA playoff basketball series Thursday, Sept. 15.

Hello everyone,

I know that I didn't write to you all last week but I had a lot of things to tidy up before I left Phoenix and headed to Russia, so please excuse me.

I want to take this time to express my gratitude to all of you that followed me throughout this WNBA season it really meant a lot to the WNBA, my teammates, as well as myself. I hope that I was able to enlighten you on what was going on. And I hope that I did a pretty good job of keeping you up to date with everything.

The season did not end the way that we had planned, of course, but I know that we will take this next season - which is not an offseason - and get better for the next WNBA season. As you may or may not know, the majority of WNBA players head abroad right after the WNBA season ends, and as soon as the season abroad finishes we are right back at it in the WNBA. It is extremely strenuous but it's what we love to do and it also keeps up financially stable so we make it all work.

I want you to know that I am sitting on a train headed to my city - Kursk in Russia - and I truly hope that you all would follow me on Twitter @quickdeuce, and Facebook Temeka Johnson-Meek so that you can keep up with me over here. Again, thank you for the support and I hope that we can continue this in the near future.